MISCELLANEOUS.

Manawatu Times, Volume III, Issue 32, 26 February 1879, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS.

Aitutijta fecrorti.— Hifh^de^Jh|sjiß^ the habit, when talking their. 'Inflish^iueh as it is, of interjecting the penpiml pxoßouat u h«" wh»n hot r«qiured, : »ueb m "Tliev King he has come," instead of " The- Kin» has com»v Oft«n, iaj epniMuenee^^^tjHi^ >tencej bran expression is rehdM^ludieioiaß. as the sequel will show. A gedilemwn »|& he has had the pleasure of liste»ing %• » clever minister; who recently fcegaa hie die- . course thus:—" My friends, yon wiUfi»d li 4. siibject of discqurse thieiafternabn is thfivei Epistle General of the Apottl* P«t«r, ekepter : sth> and versi Bth, m the worf», * Detil' he. goes about Uke a'rowriiig lmh eiietv ingwhorahQ may devour. 1 Npw,mf frieidl*. with your leave, we will divide- 'the •object ' to-day into four heads.. FirsUi<.vVelskeli. endeavor to ascertain ' Who Itte Devil !»• was?' Secondly^ We. ihall inquire inte) his geographical position^-namely *Wm» the> Deyil he. .was goi9gl K .lTiiijfttj: <+*& this of a personal charipter— 'Who theTDevil he was seeking'?' And fturthly an 4 lastly. W« shaJJ, endeavor to . ■qk^»onee» tion : wKich,has nnVer been tolveaTyeV!-* Wkafe . the Disxil.he.was roaru»g about!? "• : ; A Notsd. P*isoNfl^.-rThf ' Kent T«* ' Tinps ' gives, t&e. f oljpwing aco^BP^o' *wU», of Charles Dicken'i first visit fcoAnmjpii:— " When;he wa» in Philade)phi» the ddnniM^ took him to see, imqag other pl>(W*> (.th». Eastern, Penitentiary^ epmnipnlX, bwl* '#. the Chorry-hiJl >.pri«i».' ,ThfiM^;. antees, was then, as hpw, the great fej^.nre^elttHe^ prison^ arid Dipkens -y^irnM^M^m^ whM Ckarles. Langheime'r was serving ft^WjrwrilS ' sentence, and Dickens devoted aeveii^jpaget of his *• American N4»tee' to||^diipf9qw>» v of the cell, and, m particnla^ of thf^'aeg[e«t>ed heart-broken a^pear»Qce.elrthifterimi« nal, whose life has been cruelly tortared«at of him by the solitary eonflnwNpit ipfc— , '- Langheimer had decqrj^e^ "■< hie t#l' irtik. cbloored' drawings ihVttU withdyeae^rieteA Jxota the yarns, he was working iish, md? the cell, m , still thowjo/to nsiierm as. jp»e ' e£ the euripsities of ithf p]»ce. He he 4 «•<• a flower-bed m belittle yard,w»irhDieke«e described as ' looking for «tt *be weijd.like ■% little grave.' - Aften scrvwgAoik feu leva, this ' dejected,; heart-broken ..enmiMi .«•-.. naged to vielate a few. more of/thf lawe et the Commonvfeaith of PenMylvaai* ef||ciently to.be lehtenced to,'ahd*te •eire;,»l i«astten more terms m the. came;- nlehi v tiri^ ton. He is now 75 ye>n ol^ eft^ after be* ing released {icon- that iairtitt>t*oi* aboxt yearago^ he- went oojk t^^lfieki^ui te *f^. farming for a change opoh hie eoh-ia«lawiH place. His fa«e there wisiiei4:hT a Wii^ volent gentleman. A TOoiift? Tiij»t^ißt|)fi|K tew of the Penitentiary rewiv^»l#t»»Mking if the institutioa ;w.p^^ rewivf JMie.. again and would send . the^whfrewith >c, brfng him on. JSfo answer «aji? ret«rniS|, and it nas. treated as a WhimVv. ?U| $**- ' PhUadelphia fame*' states ' thai on*; 's££& ing m October the, Majo^^^fc^ji^ffi rung vigorously, and's, smsU'tsiisfi.oljt Joifjj*^ whose meagre fetturca' werefrmrowm..«B>fe : »'" cropped gray whiskert and. ' ha^'tM : M&' strntounted by ; aj blue cap, stood 'tyfari W* and announced lumKelf to be tk* aojtei p*K soner. He said he had b^pen pjromJNd;,t^rk^ and wished the Mayor, tp gire hirji tfifi^ cial Kft. He.was so persUtenjk tl^Jif^raik. sent away to:the.C(^tMfltoti»^i|feQ)iied^ He apeak* ci the Pan^tiai^i a^Hhoaw.^ Womek IKVU Loj^iwk P«^ OnTO*-^ Eight hundred young women al> work, *V V : m ono room,, all loqking con^stablesi moet of them, .looking pretty^ evrninj^fiur, wages at easy work fit for won^en 0K ; w/erk. eJb which they can, sit and iwt,fiCnd not b»^ weary with a kitchen a* hand 1 and>lwfe dinner m the. middfe of the day, with keAfe of aWeiico withbuMfcopptf* of p*y e*dbj7e«r« with a doctor for lickneM vyi. % peajnom $&'. old age; «c»yoting 4i' r yeMi roll «a become Qld-^with only eight hpnn of a^oit* i»wr- before, elgte. 6'dpok m &• aionuif. aha never after eightat nignViiiift *he <#». supermtendeht^pen to each giil, Thk|ia> Government oflio^ jtn^fjt jfofernmeat wsf* veillance, and^^itt WiWaii|flli|ii| iat> aajjl \ence during the last eight j»i», \. ' :'*•